book chapter
The art of healing among the Azande
Congo • 10 (1) • Published In 1929 • Pages: 220-25., 361-408 [incomplete]
By: De Graer, Albert M., Coughlin, Margaret.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
'The Art of Healing among the Azande' by De Graer includes a few preliminary pages of general explanation on the Azande conception of disease and its cure, followed by a discussion of the characteristics of each disease and its native remedies, filed alphabetically by the Azande name. Some 124 diseases are described. De Graer attempts no estimate as to the efficacy of these Azande remedies, although he often includes the native theory behind the remedy and the etymological origin of the name of the disease. The last 18 pages of the article consist of an alphabetical table of plants and animals used as remedies with a brief description of each and a list of the diseases each is used to treat.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theory of disease
- Sorcery
- Magical and mental therapy
- Medical therapy
- Pharmaceuticals
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Azande
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Physician
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Margaret Coughlin ; 1950
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Central African Republic; Africa
- NotesAdditional notes
- Albert M. De Graer
- This document consists of excerpts
- Translation of: L'arte du guérir chez les Azande
- The original foreign text is not included
- Translated for the HRAF files by Margaret Coughlin
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zande (African people)